Push-up muscle
The crossword clue "Push-up muscle" is answered by PEC, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PEC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PEC answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for PEC
Every other clue in this collection answered by PEC, most used first.
- Chest muscle - used 125 times, most recently in 2026
- Chest muscle, for short - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Delt neighbor - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Chest muscle, briefly - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Bench press muscle, for short - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Upper-bod muscle - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Ab's neighbor - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Chest muscle, informally - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Bench press muscle - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Push-up muscle, briefly - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Bench press target - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Ab neighbor - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Bench press muscle, briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
- Back muscle, briefly - LAT, used 97 times
- Muscle spasm - TIC, used 48 times
- Classic muscle car - GTO, used 45 times
- Back muscle, familiarly - LAT, used 36 times
- Back muscle - LAT, used 35 times
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